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Hawberk, or Hawbert

of mail, with which he was to be ready when called upon. See 13 Edw. 1, c. 6; FIEF D'HAUBERT

Feoffee

Feoffee, one enfeoffed or put in possession. Means transferee an estate in fee simple. The recipient of a fief. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 634.

Enfeoff

To give a feud or right in land to to invest with a fief or fee to invest any one with a freehold estate by the process of feoffment

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Catalla

was applied to all movables in general, and not only to these, but to whatever was not a fief or feud.

Benefice

a kindness], an ecclesiastical living and promotion, a rectory or vicarage: all church preferments except bishoprics; also a fief in the feudal system. See s. 13(1) of the (English) Benefices Act, 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. C.

Feudatory

who held his lands of a superior on condition of feudal service the tenant of a feud or fief

cestui que use

cestui que use [Anglo-French, the person for whose use (a fief is granted)] : the beneficiary of a use

feudal

Of or pertaining to feuds fiefs or fees as feudal rights or services feudal tenures

Knight banneret

A knight who carried a banner who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor and who was obliged to serve in war with a

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